Saturday, April 11, 2009 -
Happy Easter!

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I haven't flown the coop.

Still homeschooling, in year #12, and we have 7 kidlets now.

I'm around, but mostly just wasting my time on Facebook, avoiding the things I ought to be doing... like, oh, marking work... sewing the projects that were started at Christmas...  marking work.... 

E-mail me if you *really* want more of an update!!! lol

~jen

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Saturday, January 6, 2007 -
Marriage resource to snuggle up with!!!!

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I'm at the halfway mark of this pregnancy and the other night I was surfing for some "intimate" -type pregnancy information. Among all the... well, raunchy, borderline porn sites, I came across one that has turned out to be a huge blessing. It's called The Marriage Bed, and it's totally from a Christian perspective. There is information that is purely biological (somewhat clinical), as well as info of a more intimate (personal) nature. There are also sections relating to problems, and other resources.

It's hard to remember sometimes that we're not just moms and dads, but husbands and wives. We owe it to our kids to "keep the fire burning" .... sometimes we need a little encouragement or new ideas!!! It's especially wonderful when we can do that within the bounds the the Lord has set out for us as man and wife. Marriage is certainly NOT boring!!!

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Thursday, December 21, 2006 -
Merry Christmas!!!!

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Monday, October 23, 2006 -
Say Hello to Jodie!

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Another blogger-convert!!!! Yippee!!!! lol

My friend Jodie has just started her blog, Fundy Boys Country Academy, so go over and check it out! Be sure to leave her a comment when she gets a post up. Oh, and that template chicken picture? She has some of those. Maybe she'll post about them-- she told me a funny story about them once but I can't remember it.

Welcome aboard, Jodie from Albert County!!!

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Saturday, October 14, 2006 -
The new news

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Well, as you can see by the ticker, we're expecting again!!! This will be our 6th baby (and it's my 8th pregnancy). Last April I miscarried, and as hard as that was, we simply trusted God to carry us. We also trusted in Him to give us another baby if it was His will. It's been strange, actually, taking this long to get pregnant... seriously... all my other pregnancies we fairly unexpected and pretty much instant. None of this "trying" business. So, taking since April to conceive was a new experience. Only 4 months, but a big difference from 2 weeks!!! And completely different from the perspective of just trusting the Lord.

This hymn by Joseph H. Gilmore (music by William B. Bradbury) has been going through my head all day. You can find it here.

He Leadeth Me

He leadeth me, O blessèd thought!
O words with heav’nly comfort fraught!
Whate’er I do, where’er I be
Still ’tis God’s hand that leadeth me.

Refrain

He leadeth me, He leadeth me,
By His own hand He leadeth me;
His faithful follower I would be,
For by His hand He leadeth me.

Sometimes mid scenes of deepest gloom,
Sometimes where Eden’s bowers bloom,
By waters still, over troubled sea,
Still ’tis His hand that leadeth me.

Refrain

Lord, I would place my hand in Thine,
Nor ever murmur nor repine;
Content, whatever lot I see,
Since ’tis my God that leadeth me.

Refrain

And when my task on earth is done,
When by Thy grace the vict’ry’s won,
E’en death’s cold wave I will not flee,
Since God through Jordan leadeth me.

Refrain

 

The story behind it:

As a young man who re­cent­ly had been grad­u­at­ed from Brown Un­i­ver­si­ty and New­ton The­o­lo­gic­al In­sti­tu­tion, I was sup­ply­ing for a cou­ple of Sun­days the pul­pit of the First Bap­tist Church in Phil­a­del­phia [Penn­syl­van­ia]. At the mid-week ser­vice, on the 26th of March, 1862, I set out to give the peo­ple an ex­po­si­tion of the Twen­ty-third Psalm, which I had giv­en be­fore on three or four oc­ca­sions, but this time I did not get fur­ther than the words “He Lead­eth Me.” Those words took hold of me as they had ne­ver done be­fore, and I saw them in a sig­ni­fi­cance and won­drous beau­ty of which I had ne­ver dreamed.

It was the dark­est hour of the Ci­vil War. I did not re­fer to that fact—that is, I don’t think I did—but it may sub­con­sciou­sly have led me to real­ize that God’s lead­er­ship is the one sig­nif­i­cant fact in hu­man ex­per­i­ence, that it makes no dif­fer­ence how we are led, or whi­ther we are led, so long as we are sure God is lead­ing us.

At the close of the meet­ing a few of us in the par­lor of my host, good Dea­con Watt­son, kept on talk­ing about the thought which I had em­pha­sized; and then and there, on a blank page of the brief from which I had in­tend­ed to speak, I pen­ciled the hymn, talk­ing and writ­ing at the same time, then hand­ed it to my wife and thought no more about it. She sent it to The Watch­man and Re­flect­or, a pa­per pub­lished in Bos­ton, where it was first print­ed. I did not know un­til 1865 that my hymn had been set to mu­sic by Will­iam B. Brad­bu­ry. I went to Ro­ches­ter [New York] to preach as a can­di­date be­fore the Se­cond Bap­tist Church. Go­ing in­to their cha­pel on ar­riv­al in the ci­ty, I picked up a hymn­al to see what they were sing­ing, and opened it at my own hymn, “He Lead­eth Me.”

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Sunday, September 10, 2006 -
Moms for Modesty

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You can find the orginal posting of this here.

Moms for Modesty Mission Statement

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Wednesday, September 6, 2006 -
Armed and dangerous....

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Another good reason to homeschool. Bet Gena will pick up on this one too.

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Tuesday, July 4, 2006 -
Weird stuff-- and new additions

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This is really weird. I have my comments settings done so that anyone can comment, but a few people have tried and it won't let them without logging in. I have no idea what the problem is--- I double-checked and my comments are set to allow everyone! I am so sorry. I have no idea what's going on. Please keep trying to leave me comments!!! It's like getting mail. It really brightens my day!

OK-- the robins are still there, and still chasing prospective preditors, but the eggs have hatched! My husband got a peek at the little birdlings and said they're really big and look like they're all beak. Hopefully I'll be able to get some baby pictures!

Happy 4th to all my American friends!!!

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Monday, May 1, 2006 -
Moncton special meetings

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If you are in the Moncton area, check out this link. Revival could be just around the corner, and you don't want to miss it!

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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 -
OK, so maybe it WILL kill you...

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Ever hear a teen (or adult for that matter) say those infamous words, "Well, it never killed anybody"???

A teen girl from Newfoundland is dead, and according to the coroner, there is a good chance that an infection from a body peircing is the culprit.

Question: how many of you have children that have something pierced? (including ears)

I'll answer first: none of my 5 children do (4 are girls), and I had my ears pierced twice as a kid (note: I cannot wear even the most expensive of earrings now due to infections).

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